Edmund Clark

Edmund Clark HonFRPS is a British artist and photographer whose work explores politics, representation, incarceration and control. His research based work combines a range of references and forms including bookmaking, installations, photography, video, documents, text and found images and material. Several of his projects explore the War on Terror.[1]

For the baseball player, see Ed Clark (baseball). For the banker, see W. Edmund Clark.

His notable projects include Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out,[2][3] Control Order House,[4][5][6] The Mountains of Majeed,[7][8][9] and Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition (in collaboration with researcher and writer Crofton Black).[10][11] Edmund Clark's awards include the 2009 International Photography Award from The British Journal of Photography,[12] 2016 Rencontres d'Arles Photo-Text Book Award[13] and 2017 Infinity Award in Documentary and Photojournalism category from International Center of Photography.[14] In 2018 Clark was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. Edmund Clark was the Ikon Gallery's artist-in-residence at Europe's only wholly therapeutic community prison, HM Prison Grendon from 2014 until 2018. Supported by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust, the residency culminated in the publication of My Shadow's Reflection (Ikon Gallery: Birmingham and Here Press: London) and a solo exhibition In Place of Hate at Ikon Gallery.[15][16][17]

Life and career

Clark worked as a researcher in London and Brussels before gaining a postgraduate diploma in photojournalism at London College of Communication.[18]

He gained access to Guantanamo Bay and to a house under a control order (housing an individual held under the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011). His book Control Order House is his response to a period he spent staying in a house with a man known as 'CE' who had been placed under a Control Order due to his suspected involvement with terrorist-related activity. Clark spent three days working in the house taking a large number of quick, uncomposed photographs surveying the site. These images, along with architectural plans of the house, redacted documents relating to the case and a diary kept by 'CE' form a portrait of sorts: of the site and its inhabitant and of the structure of legal restriction imposed and represented by the house.[19]

Publications
  • Still Life: Killing Time. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2007. ISBN 978-1904587538
  • Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out. Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2010. ISBN 978-1904587965
  • Control Order House. London: Here, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9574724-0-2. Edition of 250 copies.
    • Second edition. London: Here, 2016. ISBN 978-0-9935853-1-9. Edition of 500 copies.
  • The Mountains of Majeed. London: Here, 2014. ISBN 978-0-9574724-8-8. 8 photographs, 4 paintings by Majeed, 3 Taliban poems. Edition of 450 copies.
  • Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition. New York: Aperture and Magnum Foundation, 2016. ISBN 978-1-59711-351-9.
    • Second edition. New York: New York: Aperture and Magnum Foundation, 2017.
  • My Shadow's Reflection. London: Here; Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 2018. ISBN 978-1-911155-15-7. Edition of 1000 copies.

Awards

Exhibitions

Permanent collections

References
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  6. O'Hagan, Sean. "At home with a suspected terrorist". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
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  8. Smyth, Dian (7 July 2015). "Edmund Clark photographed Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base, home to more than 40,000 people". The British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  9. Brook, Pete (24 February 2015). "The 40,000 People on Bagram Air Base Haven't Actually Seen Afghanistan". Wired Magazine. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
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